He suddenly leaned forward and said, 'Did you really think it was good?' It seemed astonishing that my literary idol was genuinely anxious to know what this American kid thought of his work. But it proved to me that even Samuel Beckett suffered self-doubt as a writer.

AUTHOR PAUL AUSTER on what he learnt from the great playwright

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